The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit

By Robert N. Watson

The humanities—philosophy, art history, English literature,
Slavic languages, musicology, and the rest—are quaint, elderly
relatives that the real, serious, modern university (consisting of
technological researchers and the professional schools) subsidizes
out of charitable tradition but has trouble pampering during
difficult times. The president of my university, the University of
California, made that clear on national television not long ago:
"Many of our, if I can put it this